We are delighted to present a short programme of films originally shot on 16mm. While we don't have the capacity to screen the original analogue films we are keen to support a medium that is increasingly under threat by the advances in digital and AI filmmaking.

B for Bartleby is the final film in this short series and draws on Herman Melville's legendary narrative and transforms it into a film essay about remembrance, language, and resistance. Based on dialogues with a deceased companion, the famous phrase I would prefer not to is revived through the voices and gestures of performers, young people, rap musicians, passersby, and stranded individuals – quietly, persistently, timelessly.

Herman Melville’s famous short story Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street, published in 1853 is at the starting point of Angela Summereder’s most recent film. Melville’s protagonist is a clerk at a law firm whose job consists of repetitively copying documents. His notorious line “I would prefer not to,” with which he brushes aside the work assigned to him with a polite, relentless stoicism, as we are told by the lawyer, the first-person narrator, runs like a common thread through Summereder’s essayistic montage.